Ye Yuan is a doctoral student working with Dr. Jin Sook Lee and Dr. Amy Kyratzis. She earned her B.A. in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages from Beijing Language and Culture University in China, and her M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from the University of Southern California. Ye is also a certified Montessori teacher. Before attending UCSB, she worked as a bilingual preschool teacher for two years. Currently, her research interests lie in bilingualism, heritage language maintenance, second/foreign language acquisition, and the use of technology in language learning.